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T. B. BAILEY.

HAMMER.

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Patented Dec. 5, 1882.

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COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI.

HAMMER.

SPECIFICATIbN forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,602, dated December 5,1882. Application filed April 17, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS B. BAILEY, of Columbus, in the county of Lowndes and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hammers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a means for securing the handle to a hammer and for strengthening said handle.

The invention consists essentially in a hammer having the outer end of its eye closed and provided with a threaded hole, and the combination therewith of a longitudinally-bored wooden handle, and an iron rod having one end threaded for engagement with the hole in the eye, and the other end threaded for engagement with a nut at the free end of the handle.

The invention is also applicable to a hatchet or similar tool.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of a hammer provid-- ed with my improvements. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views of the rod and nut.

A represents a hammer-head of ordinary general form. The outer end of the eye is closed, and in the center of the closed portion is a threaded hole, a. i

The handle B is made of wood,and is bored centrally throughout its entire length, and has one end formed to exactly fit the eye of the hammer.

O is an iron rod of the same diameter as the bore in the handle, and it has one end threaded for engagement with the hole a, and the other end threaded for engagement with a nut, E.

The handle B is inserted in place in the eye.

The rod 0 is passed through the handle and screwed into the hole a, and its end riveted down. The nut E is then placed on the other end of the rod, and both ends of the rod finished olf even with the surfaces of the hammer-head and the nut, respectively.

Theadvantages of my invention are: The handle is securely fastened to the hammer and prevented from coming off, without the necessity for driving wedges in the eye portion in ger of breaking the handle. By removing the nut thehandle can be taken off when desired; and by having the end of the rod smoothed and finished off even with the surface of the head the hammer can be used in close places, such as in boxes, or in corners of a wall or ceiling, Where it could not be used if the nut wereoutside of the hammerhead. The handle may be further strengthened by a collar, f, on the rod 0, near the threaded portion, atthe hammer end of the same, whereby when the rod 0 is screwed into its place in the hammer a shoulder is formed, so that when the end of the screw is hammered down and riveted upon the outside of the hammer the handle is held firmly in the same, and the collar f acts as a brace to strengthen the handle when the hammer is used. Thehole a in the closed end of the eye of the hammer is countersunk at b to allow the rod 0 to be riveted down and finished flush withthe face. The rod 0 may be screwed into the hammer and finished flush with the face without riveting danger of breaking or riveting off the end of the screw is avoided; also, this end of the rod may be brazed or otherwise secured to the hammer so as to form a part thereof, and the wooden handle then be put in place and the rant E screwed upon the other end of the rod claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentt 1. A hammer-head having its eye closed at the outer end and provided with a threaded hole, a, said threaded hole being countersunk at its outer end or at the face of the hammerhead, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. The combination, with a hammer-head, A, having its eye closed at the outer end and a threaded hole formed therein, of a rod, 0, passing through the handle, screw-threaded upon both ends and provided with a collar,f,

upon end below the thread, and a fasteninghammer can be used to pullnails without dandown, if deemed advisable, as by so doing the,

Having thus fully described my invention, I

nut, E, upon the other end, substantially as nut, E, screwed on the rod at the end opposite and for the purpose herein described. the head, substantially as and for the purpose 3. The combination, with a hammer-head herein described. having its eye closed at the outer end, oi'a THOMAS BROWNRIGG BAILEY. 5 longitudinally-bored Wooden handle, B, an Witnesses:

iron rod, 0, passing through said eye andhan- M. A. FRANKLIN, die and secured to the head, and a fastening- T. B. BELL. 

